The Power of Praying Moms

In August of 2018, my youngest child was starting first grade while my older two were starting high school. After surviving the middle school years and forcing my five-year-old to go into the classroom each morning of Kindergarten, I was anxious about the upcoming school year. 

As the first day of school approached, I began seeing Facebook posts for an event called DayONE—a women’s prayer event for all Lexington One moms. This event was scheduled for the first day of school at a local church. I decided to take a step of faith and attend after I dropped off my kids. 

That one hour of prayer changed my life. 

Madelyn Mathias began DayONE because of her desire to pray for her children and their schools. With the help of Jenny Coker and many other individuals and churches, God has grown DayONE and is using it to change hearts in Lexington District One. 

Their event is based on the four steps of prayer followed by Moms in Prayer, International: Praise, Confession, Thanksgiving, and Intercession. The heart behind this ministry is to glorify God by gathering, encouraging, praying, and connecting Lexington One moms. Since 2018, a DayONE prayer event has been held every year. 

Women from the same schools within the district gather and pray for the staff and their children. A major goal at the DayONE event is to organize a “Moms in Prayer” group representing each school who will commit to pray on a weekly basis. 

Currently, 23 of the 33 Lexington One schools, including American Leadership Academy (ALA) and private schools, have a group that covers them each week. We continue to pray and trust God to bring more women of prayer so all 33 schools will be covered.

I knew I didn’t want that first, life-changing, DayONE event in 2018 to be my last, so I volunteered to co-lead a group for my children’s schools and have never looked back. 

While the schools and groups have changed, and Covid caused a disruption, I have continued to be a part of Moms in Prayer and DayONE. 

The Lord has shown me the value of committing one hour each week to gathering and praying for our children, their teachers, and their schools. 

My group has prayed over children’s anxiety, tests, class schedules, attacks from the enemy on our children, teachers fighting cancer and having surgeries, and for the perseverance to finish the year well. We’ve prayed for wisdom, guidance, peace, healing, protection and many more blessings on these precious children and the staff. We believe nothing is too great or too small to bring before the throne of grace with boldness, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us [and our children] at the proper time (Hebrews 4:16 HCSB).

Moms in Prayer is an international organization whose mission is to impact children and schools worldwide for Christ by gathering mothers to pray. If we can reach the hearts of mothers for Jesus, the children’s hearts will follow. In our hour of prayer, we also pray through a scripturally based prayer sheet focusing on a different attribute of God each week.

Moms in Prayer International is a weekly reminder that, as moms, we don’t have to have it all together because God does! He loves our children even more than we do and desires that they follow and trust Him.

Now this is the confidence we have before Him: Whenever we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. 

1 John 15:14 (HCSB)

By praying the promises of Scripture over our children, we know we are asking according to His will and that He does hear us. 

As we have entered another school year, would you prayerfully consider joining the Moms in Prayer mission and grab a friend to commit to praying? To see what a difference prayer makes in the life of your child, their school, and even yourself?

Attributes of God

Praise & Confession

We praise Him for who He is, preparing our hearts to confess how sinful we are so we remember how much we need Him. 

If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness… 

1 John 1:9 NASB

Thanksgiving

We thank Him for all the blessings He abundantly pours out. 

In everything give thanks; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus

1 Thessalonians 5:18 NASB 

Intercession

We intercede for our children by praying
Scripture and claiming the promises of God over them.

I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers,  intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people...

1 Timothy 2:1 NIV